171. Kuru and Gaëtan Dugas

Kat covers a mysterious and DEADLY disease nicknamed the laughing death. (No, it is not about being tickled.) Then Hayley has a PRIDE lesson for us! She'll be teaching us about a wrongfully demonized patient of the AIDS epidemic. Gaétan Dugas Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/538428a https://macleans.ca/culture/movies/how-a-typo-created-a-scapegoat-for-the-aids-epidemic/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaëtan_Dugas https://www.vice.com/en/article/vb4mz9/how-one-young-gay-man-was-wrongfully-blamed-for-bringing-aids-to-the-us https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2016.20877 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaëtan_Dugas